The Germans who didn’t experience Allied victory as liberation were, by definition, the ones who preferred National Socialism to continue. For some reason the DW news editors retelling history are treating loyalty to Hitler as the most important perspective deserving acknowledgment, in the same breath as the Allied defeat of fascism.

The “even though” construction is a big give away. It frames the Germans harboring ongoing Nazi sympathy as a sincere complicating nuance, rather than the exact problem that the occupation existed to resolve. Was there a better form of liberation the genocidal Nazis preferred?

They could have surrendered after Stalingrad, when their wars were obviously lost, instead of accelerating the Holocaust through 1943, 1944, and into 1945. No surrender, just genocide? What’s to complain about when their terror campaign is ended?

DW begging sympathy for those expressing loyalty to Hitler, especially after genocide was completely and undeniably exposed as the plan, begs which Germans DW is promoting here as victims and why.